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The Robotics Summit & Expo, produced by Robotics Business Review mother or father firm WTWH Media, not too long ago introduced the total convention agenda for the May 10-11 occasion on the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Since its founding in 2018, the Robotics Summit & Expo has turn into the premier industrial robotics improvement occasion.
The convention classes on the occasion are designed to impart engineers with the knowledge they should develop and deploy the following technology of economic robots. Beyond the keynotes and convention classes, there shall be 150-plus displays and demonstrations on the expo present flooring, a profession truthful, a robotics improvement problem, networking alternatives and extra.
Register for full convention passes by March 9 to save lots of $300. Expo-only passes are simply $75. Academic reductions can be found and tutorial full convention charges are simply $295.
The Robotics Summit & Expo shall be co-located with the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum (HREF), an occasion designed to offer engineers, engineering administration, enterprise professionals and others with details about the right way to efficiently develop and deploy the following technology of healthcare robotic. Also co-located with these occasions is DeviceTalks Boston, the premier {industry} occasion for medical expertise professionals. HREF and DeviceTalks Boston appeal to engineering and enterprise professionals from a variety of medical expertise backgrounds.
The full agenda for the Robotics Summit & Expo is beneath. You may view your entire agenda right here and register right here.
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Opening Keynote: Idea to Reality: Commercializing Robotics Technologies
Howie Choset, Professor of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
8:45 AM -9:30 AM
Turning a expertise developed inside a lab right into a profitable robotics firm isn’t any simple job. Howie Choset has finished this a number of instances with firms equivalent to Medrobotics (surgical robots), Hebi Robotics (modular robots) and Bito Robotics (robotic software program). Choset will share insights in regards to the robotics startups he based and finest practices for taking technological innovation from an thought to actuality.
Keynote: Future of Open-Source Robotics Development
Wendy Tan White, CEO, Intrinsic
9:30 AM – 10:15 AM
In this hearth chat, Intrinsic CEO Wendy Tan White will talk about the corporate’s ongoing efforts to make industrial robotics extra accessible and usable for tens of millions extra companies, entrepreneurs and builders. Tan White may also talk about the latest acquisition of the Open Source Robotics Corporation and what it means going ahead.
Keynote: Scalable AI Solutions for Driverless Vehicles
Laura Major Chief Technology Officer, Motional
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM
Major will talk about Motional’s strategy to creating SAE Level 4 autonomous automobiles (AVs) that may safely navigate complicated street eventualities. As a part of the dialogue, Laura will cowl the core challenges of AVs, deep studying developments, and Motional’s progressive Machine Learning-first options.
Breakout Session: Robotics Roadmap to Commercialization Success
Speakers: Jennifer Apicella, Vice President, Pittsburgh Robotics Network; Reese Mozer, CEO and Co-Founder, American Robotics; Andy McMillan, Advisory Board Chairman, Cirtronics
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Commercialization is the impression level the place all expectations to your product are examined – proper when it hits the market. Successful commercialization is sweet for the person firm and the robotics {industry} as an entire. Success results in extra merchandise, whether or not they’re next-gen, by-product, or brand-new new concepts. Join us in studying from three specialists within the robotics {industry} about how creating strategic partnerships can expedite industrial growth and the steps required to achieve this course of. While the street to commercialization is probably not linear, executives share their firsthand experiences and necessities for precision and detail-oriented companions.
Breakout Session: Situational Awareness Using 3D LiDAR
Cedric Hutchings, Co-Founder & CEO, Outsight
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Many sorts of robots can leverage 3D LiDAR information to realize situational consciousness in actual time. This consciousness is crucial to carry out required duties but in addition to allow market adoption. However, successfully utilizing LiDAR information in actual time is complicated and costly. In this presentation, attendees will find out about a brand new class of LiDAR software program – a real-time pre-processing engine – that enables utility builders and integrators to make use of LiDAR information from any {hardware} provider and for any utility. Real-world use instances and LiDAR recordings shall be used as an example the sensible functions.
Breakout Session: Achieving Scalable Interoperability with Automated Negotiation
Michael Grey, Software Engineering Manager, Intrinsic
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
With the speedy acceleration of robotic deployments, the necessity for heterogeneous fleet administration will turn into customary. In this session, Intrinsic will share latest developments within the Open-RMF platform and current use instances the place it has been deployed. Intrinsic may also current a roadmap about the way forward for Open-RMF and interoperability and a few of its newest instruments and capabilities, together with:
- Multi-agent planning framework – Mapf is a library for cooperative path discovering
- Task Management – the newest enhancements together with a versatile job framework to permit customized job definitions, multi-phase duties, prioritization and extra
- Site Editor – a desktop or net utility to visualise and edit giant deployment websites
- Crowd Simulation – a plugin to simulate human actors with a number of behaviors
- Obstacle Detectors – packages that infer the presence of obstacles from sensor inputs together with LIDAR or 2D/3D cameras
Breakout Session: Designing Surgeon-Level Haptic Sensing for Surgical Robotics
Robert Brooks, CEO, Forcen
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Force and torque sensing play key roles in enabling surgical robotics, together with on the tip of the instrument, trocar location/tissue contact, surgeon collaboration and the surgeon interface. During this session, attendees will find out about 13 core specs for haptic sensors and the present state-of-the-art of what’s attainable. This discuss will element finest practices for implementing haptic sensors into surgical robots, together with:
- Thermal compensation and issues below surgical drapes
- Grounding & shielding inside ultra-compact robotic joints
- Engineered cable assemblies for high-flex, multidimensional, tight-bend utility
How customizable cobot design allows success of your surgical robotics firm
Speakers: Gene Matthews, Senior Product Manager, Kollmorgen; Dr. Jindong Tan, President and Founder, Azure Medical Innovation
1:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Collaborative robots and AI have gotten more and more vital for surgeons to carry out repetitive and exact management duties. But surgical functions have distinctive efficiency and certification necessities that aren’t accessible within the present cobot market. This presentation goals to assist get rid of obstacles to selecting custom-made surgical robots, in addition to assist surgical robotics firms construct out their specs in order that they’ll deal with scientific functions. This discuss may also handle vital engineering issues when specifying surgical utility wants on collaborative options, AI integration within the surgical movement, and certification necessities:
- What are the distinctive necessities for cobots in surgical functions?
- How do key parts equivalent to frameless motors decide efficiency?
- How do cobots and AI-enabled imaginative and prescient impression surgical movement?
- How custom-made design can impression efficiency, improvement cycle, and certification
Breakout Session: Sensor Calibration and SLAM to extend ODD & cut back BOM price
William Sitch, Chief Business Officer, Main Street Autonomy
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Autonomy and notion programs are constructed on the core parts of sensor calibration, localization, and mapping. Calibration requires targets and educated personnel and upkeep. Localization and mapping solely works in sure areas with costly sensor programs. These points drive larger robotic price, limit robotic deployments and constrain enterprise development. This discuss will element three improvements that clear up these issues.
Breakout Session: Simplification of Advanced Motion Control Using Integrated Servo Drives
Andrew Zucker, Mechatronics Engineer, Harmonic Drive
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
In fashionable robotic functions, house comes at a premium. Power density continues to be a number one think about robotic functions, though it’s usually compromised by the cabling and {hardware} wanted to implement the facility and management programs. In this session, we are going to discover the right way to simplify the design of a robotic joint with out compromising efficiency, reliability, or superior movement management options that usually come at the price of cumbersome cabling and electronics.
Breakout Session: Developing General Purpose Robots That Push the Boundaries of Technology
Jeff Cardenas, CEO, Apptronik
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
New {hardware}, sensors, algorithms, and AI applied sciences have opened up the flexibility to rethink how robots are developed to be used in unstructured environments. Using a primary rules strategy, Apptronik has used the identical platform to develop a variety of robots from exoskeletons to humanoids. This has resulted in reactive, compliant, light-weight, and inexpensive robots that may carry out a wide range of duties in present human environments. In this session, you’ll about Apptronik’s strategy to creating a platform for general-purpose robots, their use instances, and the long run viability of those programs.
Breakout Session: Developing a New Generation of Robots to Transform Care within the Home
Mike Dooley, CEO, Labrador Systems
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Across the globe, we live older for longer than ever earlier than. This is creating large calls for on caregivers, healthcare programs and societies total, the place many areas are already experiencing a labor scarcity disaster. Robotics can play a big position in serving to individuals stay extra independently for longer.
To obtain this, robotics has to remodel in at the very least two main methods. First, we have to develop robots that may scale to be inexpensive for private, 1-to-1 use, which is a dramatic change from most industrial robots immediately. Second, making practical robots function autonomously in properties requires fixing for a lot larger complexity, with way more various and difficult settings and use case eventualities.
In this presentation, Labrador Systems will stroll via the design and improvement of Retriever, a private robotic constructed from the bottom as much as function within the residence, lighten the load of each day actions, prolong the impression of caregivers, and in the end assist us stay extra independently as we age.
Breakout Session: Keys to Using ROS 2 and Other Frameworks for Medical Robots
Tom Amlicke, Software Systems Engineer, MedAcuity
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
What is the very best architectural strategy to make use of when constructing medical robots? Is it ROS, ROS 2 or different open-source or industrial frameworks? The reply is, “it depends.” In this presentation, we are going to discover engineering questions in regards to the degree of concern, danger, design controls, and proof on a few totally different functions of those frameworks. Looking at three hypothetical robotic programs, we are going to discover these approaches:
1. An utility primarily based on the da Vinci Research Kit via regulatory clearance
2. ROS as take a look at instruments to confirm the software program necessities for a visible steering system
3. Commercial off-the-shelve robotic arm used for a medical utility
Attending this session to learn to create trade-offs with these totally different architectural approaches and the right way to validate the supposed makes use of of those architectural approaches to make sure a profitable submission bundle to your FDA, EMA, or different regulatory approval.
Breakout Session: How to Cut Build Cycles in Half and Supercharge Robotics Development
Dave Evans, Co-Founder & CEO, Fictiv
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
When it involves new product improvement in robotics, there is no such thing as a silver bullet. But there are widespread and predictable bottlenecks and inefficiencies that forestall engineering groups from working at most productiveness that may be eradicated.
Attendees will study methods to beat these obstacles and speed up improvement. Through inspiring success tales from industry-leading firms, together with Honeywell and Gecko Robotics, this discuss will element how robotics groups shaved weeks and months off improvement cycles to drive improved high quality, pace and time-to-market outcomes. Ultimately, attendees will depart with a transparent plan of motion on how they’ll remodel new product improvement.
Breakout Session: Coordinated Motion of a Manipulator and Mobile Base
Tiffany Cappellari, Engineer, Southwest Research Institute
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Robotics for large-scale fabrication or processing has relied on the flexibility to understand what’s known as “coordinated motion.” This allows a robotic arm to work past its attain envelope by exact coordination with exterior axes. These exterior axes could also be linear rails, or rotational axes to increase the working envelop of the mixed robotic resolution. Mobile robots have additionally gained in adoption and use, however, even in pretty complicated cell manipulator options, coordinated movement is barely realized via the connection of the manipulator and the bottom by way of an exterior monitoring gadget. These options additionally usually make use of a “stop and go” strategy through which the cell base positions itself in a static pose first earlier than the economic manipulator begins its operation, thus not demonstrating true coordinated movement.
Southwest Research Institute seeks to pursue a coordinated movement resolution that can allow richer steady processing past the usual attain of the manipulator with out the necessity to tie collectively the bottom and manipulator with an exterior monitoring gadget, subsequently opening a brand new frontier of commercial cell robots that presently aren’t accessible in {industry}.
Breakout Session: Innovation in Robotic Grasping
Speakers: Roy Belak, CEO, Nexera Robotics; Nathan Brooks, CTO, PickNik Robotics, Jeff Mahler, Co-founder and CTO , Ambi Robotics; Boston Dynamics
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Grasping and manipulation, the flexibility to immediately and bodily work together with and modify objects within the setting, is maybe the best differentiator between robotic programs and all different courses of automated programs. Many sorts of robots require the flexibility to coordinate tactile, imaginative and prescient, and proprioceptive sensing to pick-up and function on all method of objects, with objectives starting from offering human-like dexterity and autonomous manipulation, to excessive precision repeatability, and on to superhuman power and endurance. During this panel session, attendees will study of the newest greedy and manipulation applied sciences and strategies commercially accessible, in addition to options rising from the lab that can enable for entire new courses of robotics functions.
Breakout Session: Human Factor Design Considerations for Healthcare Robots
Speakers: Laura Birmingham, Associate Research Director, Emergo by UL; Alix Dorfman, Managing Human Factors Specialist, Emergo by UL
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Although human elements engineering touches many aspects of total system design, at its core, the observe facilitates the interplay between people and expertise; it aligns a system’s design with people’ cognitive and bodily capabilities and limitations to provide a secure and satisfying person expertise. Despite the extent of autonomy healthcare robotics applied sciences may provide, there may be all the time a human component that requires consideration.
During this discuss, the presenters will talk about human elements implications and issues associated to the design of robotic healthcare expertise utilized in scientific and non-clinical environments. The discuss will describe how robotics disrupts the 4 key features of design analyzed when supporting product improvement: the system’s touchpoints, supposed customers, supposed use setting(s), and its supposed customers’ duties with the system. We will illuminate how such features can and will affect design choices, in addition to finest practices when conducting analysis inside the regulated medical gadget {industry}.
Breakout Session: Position suggestions for healthcare robotics
Astrid Stock, Product Manager, SIKO
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Healthcare robots are fairly totally different from their industrial counterparts. They don’t work in fenced-off areas, however quite facet by facet with their operators. With this in thoughts, security, accuracy, and dimension necessities have turn into extra vital in immediately’s functions. Reliable management of the robotic’s place, alignment and motion is crucial. Rotary and linear encoders allow the place suggestions of the motor and ship very important info to the management.
This discuss will illustrate totally different measurement rules (magnetic, glass, inductive) and clarify some great benefits of magnetic measurement. It will differentiate between absolute and incremental programs and can talk about the totally different interfaces from primary incremental TTL to absolute interfaces like CANopen or BiSS-C. Attendees may also find out about developments and necessities for compact designs and extremely built-in options.
Breakout Session: Unlocking New Applications for Mobile Robots
Speakers: Niels Jul Jacobsen, CEO, Capra Robotics; Steve Boyle CEO, Essential Aero; Amir Bousani, Founder and CEO, RGo Robotics; Mike Oitzman, Editor of Robotics, WTWH Media
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Traditional sensors and navigation stacks have enabled AGVs and AMRs to deliver great worth to a finite set of indoor materials dealing with functions. But a wider set of further functions stays unsolved as a result of limitations in tougher environments, together with outside, indoor/outside, areas with dynamic or repetitive options and the place cell robots should work together seamlessly along with people. The panelists will talk about how latest expertise advances are setting the stage for the following wave of innovation cell robots and share examples of thrilling new functions that shall be unlocked.
Breakout Session: ASTM Standards for Robotics, Automation, and Autonomous Systems
Adam Norton, Associate Director, NERVE Center, UMass Lowell
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Robotics and automatic programs utilized in many industries nonetheless lack enough customary specs for interfaces, take a look at strategies for efficiency comparability, and practices for implementation. These gaps can stifle {industry} adoption and innovation.
The ASTM F45 Committee on Robotics, Automation, and Autonomous Systems is working to fill these gaps via the event of normal terminology, practices, classifications, guides, take a look at strategies, and specs relevant to those programs.
This discuss will embrace an summary presentation on the committee’s latest and upcoming actions, in addition to an interactive dialogue session to assemble {industry} suggestions on suggestions for future requirements developments to make sure alignment with the wants of the group, each from a developer and person perspective.
The Era of Robotic Unicorns
Eliot Horowitz, CEO & Founder, Viam Robotics
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
The robotics {industry} is at an inflection level as a result of software program developments can provide a full paradigm shift in the right way to scale a profitable robotics enterprise. At MongoDB, Horowitz’s information platform was the inspiration for dozens of $1B+ high-growth software program firms. That identical fashion of software program infrastructure development is now coming to robotics to help a wave of high-growth robotics firms.
In this session, Viam and MongoDB co-founder Eliot Horowitz will element why that is the very best time to launch a robotics enterprise and the way a contemporary strategy to software program can get you from paper to prototype to manufacturing to profitable, scaled enterprise sooner than ever.
Breakout Session: Motion Control Trends for Healthcare Robots
Prabhakar Gowrisankaran, VP of Engineering and Strategy, Performance Motion Devices
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
In this presentation we are going to present an replace on latest developments in movement management applied sciences, functions, and merchandise which are particularly vital for designers of medical analytical devices and working room gear.
The emphasis shall be on cell & surgical robotics, affected person remedy gear, and advances in actuators and place sensors which are driving the following technology of movement management functions that ship extra accuracy, decrease therapy prices, and improved medical outcomes.
Prabh Gowrisankaran, VP of Engineering and Strategy at Performance Motion Devices, Inc. (PMD), will share his in depth expertise in digital movement management and can lead this dialogue designed to be fascinating for each engineers and medical practitioners alike.
Healthcare Robotics Startup Showcase
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
MassRobotics, FESTO, Mitsubishi Electric Automation, MITRE, Novanta and different key gamers within the healthcare and robotics house not too long ago initiated the Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Program. The aim is to advance healthcare robotics firms by offering the connections, steering and assets they should develop and succeed.
During this session, attendees will hear pitches from the next seven healthcare robotics startups presently within the catalyst program: Able Human Motion, Acumino, Andromeda, Maestro Surgical, Robot on Rails, Unlimited Robotics and Zeta Surgical
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Opening Keynote: The Next Decade in Robotics
Marc Raibert, Executive Director, AI Institute
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM
This hearth chat with Marc Raibert will talk about alternatives for the robotics {industry} and crucial and troublesome challenges going through the creation of superior robots. It may also describe how the brand new Boston Dynamics AI Institute is pushing the boundaries of technological innovation to unravel these challenges.
Keynote: The Future of Surgical Robotics
Martin Buehler, Global Head of Robotics R&D, Johnson & Johnson MedTech
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Johnson & Johnson, one of many world’s main healthcare firms, offers an inside have a look at the end-to-end improvement of its Monarch and Ottava robotics platforms, in addition to technique and innovation cadence throughout surgical robotics for MedTech.
Breakout Session: Guerilla Product Development for Robotics
Ted Larson, CEO, OLogic
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Based on years creating quite a few robots for firms internationally, Ted Larson, CEO of OLogic, a Silicon Valley-based robotics design and improvement providers agency, will define the steps in his guerilla product improvement program, a novel engineering strategy for creating robots. The discuss will talk about the ideas underlying the product improvement method and supply particular examples of how the method has been used for the event of assorted robotic and client electronics merchandise. He will use particular case research to element how numerous industrial robotics firms.
Breakout Session: Battery Power for Mobile Robotics – Guidelines & Solutions
Dan Friel, Battery Systems Specialist, VARTA
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Battery choices for cell robots are vital for reaching energy autonomy, however they are often complicated:
- How a lot capability is required?
- Where can I put the battery?
- What is the very best cost methodology?
In this session, attendees will study the solutions to those questions and extra. Detailed info for designers who want dependable moveable energy for cell robots shall be supplied. Additional matters lined embrace system issues equivalent to non-motive masses, battery placement points, and the right way to design for re-generative braking charging. Also mentioned shall be wired and wi-fi charging execs and cons, plus the trade-offs between brief, fast charging and once-per-shift charging methodologies.
Breakout Session: The Rise of Cobots in Healthcare
Brad Porter, Founder & CEO, Collaborative Robotics
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Robotics is all about main change. To notice the true potential of robotics requires a daring imaginative and prescient pushed top-down that aligns R&D groups, operations, finance, and world IT, whereas additionally requiring a deep deal with the small print of profitable particular person deployments. In this discuss, Brad Porter will share his perspective on how quickly collaborative robots, with extra human-like functionality and a larger capability to collaborate with people, are coming and the brand new challenges and alternatives they’ll current in healthcare.
Breakout Session: Using Simulation to Design and Develop Autonomous Robots
Gerard Andrews, Product Marketing, Robotics, NVIDIA
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Warehouse logistics and superior manufacturing are more and more utilizing robotics as a vital a part of their automation methods. They can enhance operational effectivity, enhance security, and assist firms handle the persistent labor shortages which are being noticed throughout the globe. Developing these clever robotic programs, nonetheless, is a posh, difficult, and expensive enterprise. Thankfully, superior simulation instruments can be found to engineers that may pace the design, improvement, and testing processes.
This discuss will describe the numerous methods NVIDIA Isaac Sim can be utilized to speed up the event and deployment of robots, together with superior AI and pc imaginative and prescient. Specifically, attendees will find out how simulation can take a look at robotic functions in photo-realistic, bodily correct digital twin environments. In addition, the robots might be positioned in more and more complicated simulations involving digital people and fleets of robots to optimize operational KPIs. This session is designed as an introduction to photo-realistic 3D simulation for robots and is acceptable for all ranges.
Breakout Session: Launching Mobile Manipulation Robots in Hospitals
Siddhartha Banerjee, Lead Robotics Engineer, Diligent Robotics
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Over the years, robots have made large strides within the cell transport house in addition to warehouse automation. However, cell manipulation robots working round individuals in semi-structured environments are nonetheless few and much between. Diligent Robotics is pushing the boundaries of socially-aware cell manipulation by deploying robots into hospitals. This discuss will cowl the challenges of a startup placing Moxi, a socially-aware cell manipulation platform, right into a semi-structured setting with individuals (i.e. hospitals). It will embrace classes discovered and key takeaways in addition to insights into healthcare automation given the rise of COVID-19 and the impression of labor shortages.
Form and Function Challenge Winners Announced
12:30 PM
Breakout Session: Oxidizing Your Software Development: Rust for Robots
Zach Goins, Senior Autonomy Software Engineer, Scythe Robotics
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
For a very long time, robotics software program improvement has been pressured to make the selection between secure software program and quick software program. Early on, Scythe Robotics selected a 3rd path: Rust, the brand new programming language that promised a break from that dichotomy. It was a lonely and daring selection on the time, nevertheless it has paid large dividends.
Scythe Robotics, a developer of economic autonomous lawnmowers, will talk about its choice to make use of Rust and a few learnings alongside the best way. It will talk about the way it benefited from Rust’s strengths to construct a robotic software program platform that’s each dependable and performant, whereas nonetheless enabling high-velocity improvement. For instance, leveraging the very best components of each ROS and Rust is feasible with the mature rosrust crate, which permits engineers to utilize present ROS instruments in addition to the broader crates.io bundle ecosystem. Further, immediately integrating with different present C/C++ software program is simple as nicely, enabling reuse of confirmed libraries and device-specific options like compute accelerators and different C/C++ platform SDKs.
Scythe’s speedy progress is, in no small half, because of the strengths of Rust and the boldness it has unlocked for builders to maneuver quick and construct issues reliably. This discuss shall be a information for others trying to oxidize and speed up their software program improvement course of.
Breakout Session: Building Production-level Robots for Farming
Thomas Palomares, CTO & Co-Founder, FarmWise
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Vegetable farming nonetheless depends on labor-intensive processes. Weed management particularly, which is vital to make sure good yields, is generally taken care of by hand crews who stroll the sector with hoes. After prototyping for five years within the epicenter of lettuce manufacturing in North America, FarmWise is about to launch its first industrial robotic weeder. This machine can detect crops from weeds and mechanically uproot the undesired vegetation with excessive precision utilizing deep studying and actuation management. This discuss will stroll you thru the crew’s journey and learnings from the primary demo to the architectural choices behind their new product.
Breakout Session on Legged Locomotion
Boston Dynamics
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Breakout Session: From Product Idea to Robotic Healthcare Solution – An Overview
Tobias Luksch, Manager, R&D, Robotics, ITK Engineering
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
It is a protracted street with quite a few hurdles to take a medical robotic from an preliminary thought to an authorized product. To obtain this, some vital questions have to be answered, equivalent to:
- What is the supposed use?
- What is the authorized framework?
- What are the principle dangers?
- Which strategies can be utilized to guage ideas, to develop prototypes and to confirm the ultimate product?
This session will give an summary of the important steps required to show a product thought right into a market-ready healthcare robotic. Attendees shall be supplied with sensible recommendation on the right way to implement these steps, in addition to a European perspective on the regulatory features of the product life cycle.
Breakout Session: Magnetic Robots for Diagnosis and Surgery
Giovanni Pittiglio, Research Fellow, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Robotics has the potential to democratize healthcare by complementing a surgeon’s expertise and guaranteeing constant high quality of care. With the intention of lowering ache, discomfort and limiting disruptive interplay with the anatomy, tender magnetic robots are a novel, rising resolution. This expertise can assure distant actuation, which equates to smaller dimension and softer units. This discuss will introduce the potential for magnetic tender robots in overcoming the principle limitations of different approaches, equivalent to minimally-invasive surgical procedure which is troublesome to scale because of the want for extremely expert personnel. The session will talk about a variety of functions magnetic robots can cowl in healthcare, with a deal with prognosis and surgical procedure. The primary challenges and future analysis objectives are launched and reviewed.
Breakout Session: Motion Control and Robotics Opportunities
Speakers: Dave Rollinson, Co-Founder, HEBI Robotics
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Breakout Session: Using Emulation to Accelerate the Development of Wearable Machines
Josh Caputo, Founder, President & CEO, Humotech
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Emulation is an idea that shall be acquainted to anybody engaged within the improvement of computing programs (or followers of retro gaming), however do you know analysis & improvement teams around the globe are leveraging the strategy to develop extra customized and superior prosthetics, orthotics, exoskeletons, wearable robotics, and extra?
Wearable programs are expensive to prototype and troublesome to good, so it’s essential for this burgeoning {industry} to reimagine R&D processes to unlock larger effectivity, throughput, and extra wildly profitable merchandise. Learn extra in regards to the alternatives, challenges, and progressive approaches being explored in the direction of creating expertise that augments human biomechanics and will at some point be accessible to anybody on the lookout for a lift to their bodily efficiency.
Future of Autonomy in Robotics
Ryan Gariepy, Co-Founder & CTO, Clearpath Robotics & OTTO Motors
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
From vacuums to quadrupeds to self-driving vehicles, robots have gotten more and more bodily succesful, clever and cost-effective. As with any rising {industry}, the earliest innovators didn’t have the luxurious of many years of basic information and finest practices accessible to them. They constructed from the bottom up and discovered the laborious manner what to not do.
Today, we’re coming into a brand new period of robotics. The most profitable robotics firms of the following decade received’t be those constructing from scratch. They’ll construct on present platforms which have been hardened to unravel very particular issues, together with issues in autonomy, fleet administration, simulation, and extra all through the robotics stack.
In this presentation, the viewers will find out how robotics improvement has been finished not too long ago, what’s altering, and what’s coming within the subsequent decade from an knowledgeable with fifteen years of expertise in robotic improvement and deployment throughout a wide range of industries. Market expectations surrounding robotic capabilities, safety and privateness, and robustness and security have gotten more and more troublesome for brand new entrants to match. Nevertheless, a wide range of market forces are making constructing robots cheaper and simpler than ever earlier than, and demand for robotics has by no means been larger!
Just as a brand new software program firm immediately wouldn’t construct its personal cloud computing platform, and as a substitute would use AWS, the following technology of robotics firms aren’t going to begin with a hodgepodge of ROS nodes and customized circuit boards. It is extremely seemingly that among the world’s largest robotics firms haven’t even been based but!
Closing Keynote: Developing Robots for Final Frontiers
Nicolaus Radford, CEO, Nauticus Robotics
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Space is usually known as the “final frontier.” But Nicolaus Radford and the crew at Nauticus Robotics consider the world’s oceans are of the utmost near-term precedence (and largely unexplored) last frontier. Founded by former NASA engineers, Nauticus is main the best way by creating novel ocean robotic platforms for unprecedented methods of working in and exploring the aquatic area, whereas difficult the less-than-desirable and archaic paradigm of the legacy {industry}. The firm’s imaginative and prescient is to turn into essentially the most impactful ocean robotics firm and to disrupt the present ocean providers paradigm via the mixing of autonomous robotic applied sciences. The deep sea is huge, filled with potential, and but stays largely as uncharted as house itself – and Nauticus is on the forefront of unlocking its potentialities.
This keynote will chart Radford’s journey from creating humanoid robotics for house and leveraging that have to type Nauticus and its revolutionary ocean robotics portfolio. His work at NASA closely influenced the developments at Nauticus as the corporate develops robots able to aiding in nationwide safety, repairing oil pipelines, and inspecting windfarms — all whereas considerably lowering emissions and hazards to human counterparts. During his keynote, Radford will present insights about each environments, talk about the enterprise and expertise of Nauticus’ present work and clarify his imaginative and prescient for the way forward for ocean expertise and robotics.